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"Product owners are key players in agile development projects. Often the most invested in the outcome a project, project owners direct development teams towards achieving key goals. Teams looking for product owners will be searching for candidates who have the ability to create a clear vision for the future of the product, prioritize objectives, and successfully lead a team to delivering results."

Top Product Owner Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Who do you think is the essential product stakeholder and why?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question looks to establish whether the product owner knows who the target market is. As a product owner, you should understand who the external stakeholders are and develop your product accordingly. While each stakeholder plays a vital role in the process, you must also interact with the stakeholders and explain how each one contributes to the success of a product.
Question 2

Question #2: How do you update your team on market situations or products?

How to answer
How to answer: As part of your interview, this open-ended question helps the interviewer assess your communication and interpersonal skills when working with a team in product development. As the product owner, it's your job to ensure that the team is aware of any changes in market demands. You must make sure that all team members understand the vision behind your product. Explain the process of updating your team. Describe the information that's most important to share with your team and why.
Question 3

Question #3: What product discovery frameworks have you used?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you to showcase your knowledge and experience with various product discovery frameworks. You can demonstrate how you determine the applicability and efficacy of each and why you use the frameworks you do.

7,664 product owner interview questions shared by candidates

1. Given a choice of 10 potential experiments, how do you determine which ones to do? 2. Say we tried experiment X and failed to generate the returns we’re looking for, how do you diagnose the issue? 3. Given what you know about Canva, what would do if our current growth channels plateaus? Why? 4. Look at and explore www.canva.com. What are 5 things you’d do to grow active users? Include your math. 5. Let's say the CEO asks you if searches are up on the weekends year over year? You check the data and they are. What else do you look at before you communicate your findings? 6. Let's say you see data that looks at email sends by user state for a specific email: Dormant (not in last 30 days) 5% Core (DAU) 45% Casual (WAU) 30% Marginal (MAU) 15% Resurrected (wasn't in last 30 days, then came back as WAU) 5% 7. Let's say you walk in one morning and see a report that says signups from a particular channel drops 20% day over day? What do you do to identify the cause? 8. A colleague suggests we should send more emails to drive growth. How do you determine if we should do it? 9. Let's say Canva is considering is considering an additional business model that allows new users to use unlimited amount of design elements for a single subscription price. How do you determine its potential impact? 10. Let's say Canva asks you to figure out which locale the International team should establish a local presence in. How would you go about answering this question and why? 11: Let’s say a colleague suggests we should double our customer service because it’s important. How would you verify such claims? 12. What do you think is the most thought provoking article about data that you have read? 13. What is one thing you think is right that most people don’t agree with you about? (this is not a nice-to-have question)
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Lead Business Analyst/Product Owner

Interviewed at Canva

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Nov 28, 2017

1. Given a choice of 10 potential experiments, how do you determine which ones to do? 2. Say we tried experiment X and failed to generate the returns we’re looking for, how do you diagnose the issue? 3. Given what you know about Canva, what would do if our current growth channels plateaus? Why? 4. Look at and explore www.canva.com. What are 5 things you’d do to grow active users? Include your math. 5. Let's say the CEO asks you if searches are up on the weekends year over year? You check the data and they are. What else do you look at before you communicate your findings? 6. Let's say you see data that looks at email sends by user state for a specific email: Dormant (not in last 30 days) 5% Core (DAU) 45% Casual (WAU) 30% Marginal (MAU) 15% Resurrected (wasn't in last 30 days, then came back as WAU) 5% 7. Let's say you walk in one morning and see a report that says signups from a particular channel drops 20% day over day? What do you do to identify the cause? 8. A colleague suggests we should send more emails to drive growth. How do you determine if we should do it? 9. Let's say Canva is considering is considering an additional business model that allows new users to use unlimited amount of design elements for a single subscription price. How do you determine its potential impact? 10. Let's say Canva asks you to figure out which locale the International team should establish a local presence in. How would you go about answering this question and why? 11: Let’s say a colleague suggests we should double our customer service because it’s important. How would you verify such claims? 12. What do you think is the most thought provoking article about data that you have read? 13. What is one thing you think is right that most people don’t agree with you about? (this is not a nice-to-have question)

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